Possible Clues:

• Finger — toe
• Really like the Thing's finger
• MI5 or MI6, but not CIA, has one such piece of data
• Work on plot, one of several at hand
• Possibly poke with the thing?
• Enjoy that number!
• Really like model not having small figure
• Figure getting mine owner's instruction in pit?
• It might be one way to make a trench
• Two or three, perhaps, appreciate what computers are for